The problem isn't so much the work, it's more the culture surrounding the work. most designers don't have a problem doing boring shit, boring shit is fine, it gets the bills paid, I don't have to think, whatever. There's this whole hyper-competitive attitude around the whole industry, and everyone is a critic. You have to establish an whole "designer persona". Are you in on the trends? What's in and what's out? Are you falling behind? Are you a true creative, or just another dolt who thought they could make it? Oh honey you're just another print shop designer, this is corporate work 💅. The truth that none of these people CANT acknowledge (because it would destroy the persona they've created around themselves) is that 99% of a designers applicable profitable worth anything skills are actually composition, making a client happy, and software. Clown show fr

Photography is another profession (along with graphic design, printing, and most other graphic arts) that has been ruined by corporatization. You have to be a pretty big sicko to withstand the current "creative" business culture, so only sickos make it in the industry. Self fulfilling proficiency. These fields are skilled trades! Give us trade schools and unions PLEASE :(

clicked on the wrong reddit post and was reminded that, in the year of our lord 2023, there still exists a subreddit called "PCMASTERRACE", and there are people who still post on it what are we doing guys.

aside from it slowly resembling the surface of venus how is the dallas area? asking for a friend

things are not going great folks... in fact some people, not me but some people who i've heard say that maybe perhaps things are going quite bad, not good! at all actually.